Tours Guides

L’Altra Venezia (The Other Venice) is a Venice Tour company run by Walter Fano. If you are interested in learning the secrets of the city this is the guide for you. We spent a an incredible day Andrea Dona (one of the guides).

Boats – Vaporetti

Venice Connected – You can buy multi day passes when you get to Venice or you can get them from Venice Connected. You can also get restroom passes which are a much better price here than paying at each public restroom.

Restaurants and Food

Veneto dishes to try: risotto nero (with octopus ink), scampi (prawns) and lots of shell fish. Afterall, Venice is on the sea..There is also a local favorite called risi e bisi (rice and peas). Carpaccio (raw sliced beef) comes from this region. In Verona there is a lot of cavallo eating (horse meat). If you want to try some, go for the pastissada (meat stew). There is minestra di pasta e fagioli (bean and pasta soup) polenta of all kinds and the Venitians love baccala (dried salted codfish). Prized white asperagus comes from the area near Bassano del Grappa. For dessert, tiramisu was first created in the Veneto.

Welcome to Rome on Rome!

We do the Romans a disservice if we heroize them, as much as if we demonise them. But we do ourselves a disservice if we fail to take them seriously – and if we close our long and complicated conversation with them.
---Mary Beard--